Police Brutality / Individual record
Devonte Gates
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Devonte Gates in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-05-26 in Washington Park, IL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-438
- Incident date
- May 26, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Washington Park, IL
- Agency
- U.S. Marshals Service; Caseyville Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 21
What happened
Devonte Gates died in a law-enforcement shooting on May 26, 2016, in Washington Park, Illinois, involving the U.S. Marshals Service and Caseyville police. The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records his name, date, locality and participating agencies. The record does not independently establish the reason for the federal-local operation, whether Gates possessed a weapon or fired at officers, or the results of any federal or state investigation. Because multiple agencies participated, identification of the officer who used lethal force also requires a case-specific record. The death is documented, but a more detailed reconstruction remains unverified and should not be invented from the dataset.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1571
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- undetermined
- Flee status (source)
- foot
- Agency IDs (source)
- 2080;1274
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset